01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC025690
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
- Volunteers
- 101-250 volunteers
- Staff
- 4
- Postcode
- IV3 8LB
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Abriachan Forest Trust is a community owned sustainably managed woodland of 540 hectares. It is open to the public to encourage access for all, thus promoting improved health and wellbeing of stakeholders. We also provide specific outdoor learning and recreation programmes for all abilities including those who are or have been more disadvantaged in their life experiences. These include participation in nature restoration activities, creative projects and assorted maintenance tasks within the forest's 35 km path network and native woodlands. As well as social/recreational forestry, the management also includes some areas of commercial planting to ensure financial sustainability of the community's social enterprise. This supports seven education, maintenance and administration staff. The volunteers on the Board of Trustees are advised by a professional forester.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of health
- the advancement of citizenship or community development
- the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
- the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
- the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Beneficiaries
- Children or young people
- People with disabilities or health problems
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
- Other charities or voluntary bodies
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
To support local and national initiatives which aim to extend native woodlands significantly within Scotland by improving the cultural, educational and recreational aspects of native woodlands and by rebuilding the social relationship between the communities of Scotland and their local woodlands.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2026 | £165,158 | £197,279 | 4 | 22 August 2026 |
| 31 March 2025 | £156,315 | £211,660 | 4 | 10 December 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £192,065 | £246,709 | 4 | 20 November 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £226,398 | £214,171 | 4 | 30 September 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £373,111 | £220,809 | 4 | 30 September 2022 |
Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.
04 Contact record
Principal office or trustees address
- Address supplied to OSCR
- Wester Ladycairn, Abriachan, Inverness
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.abriachan.org.uk
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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